[Coco] Lonnie Falk once defended the Coco once by saying "Itneverslows down" - but the SNES actually speeds up

[gene heskett]

On 3/15/25 21:54, Allen Huffman via Coco wrote:
>> On Mar 15, 2025, at 3:52 PM, gene heskett via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
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>> The coco's got markedly faster with running os9 as we found and fixed bugs. I didn't use basic enough ( too clunky ) to note, but generally that pretty much stayed the same.  Running os9 level one there was very little to limit what it could do, I wrote an edisk for a gvg300 3A/B video switcher that was 4 times faster than gvg's $20,000 kit. And later used much of that code for a signature analyzer for that extremely complex switcher to tell me which of the 24 digital paths thru it had a bad memory chip. All been retired now by the switch to digital video in 2008.
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> Gene,
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> How did you get into a CoCo, and bypass BASIC? I believe James Jones was another who had familiarity with OS-9, and got a CoCo specifically for OS-9.
In 64k converted coco , the old grey ghost, there was a command called 
dos you could install, but that was part of basic by the advent of the 
white versions. I think.  Some where about that time os9 went from 5 
byte named includes to 8 byte and dos was on that install disk for os9 
1.010000 which the shack sold for $29.95, but they gave it to me as it 
never sold.  That began a 2 decade long learning experience for me. Code 
wise, the 6809 plowed a lot of virgin dirt. Between the RCA 1802 and the 
Hitachi 6309 I did some great work with at various tv stations from the 
1978's onward.  Work that helped make the station I worked for the #1 
station in that market.  I've owned 1 windows machine in all those 
years, for about 2 weeks, then because the windows 95 drivers could not 
run the radio in that HP lappy, Mandrake could, but before that I built 
a linux box when red hat was at 5.0, in 'late 97.
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Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.

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